get username of geoprocessing service user

Question

Hi there,

we are running several GP-services on ArcGIS Server, authentication is web-tier based on our companys Active Directory. I try to get the script to be aware of who started the service request (similar to editor tracking on feature classes). I found these two posts, where the conclusion is, that it's not easily possible:

https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/username-of-geoprocessing-service-user/td-p/491209

https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/is-there-any-way-to-get-the-username-of-user-logged-into-arcgis/m-p/113388

Anything new on this topic or anyone else having the same problem? Can't be that hard for ESRI to implement, without me having to use SOIs, which I have no clue of.

Thanks and Best regards
- Florian

Ranga_Tolapi · Answer

Hi @MatejVrtich, getUserInfo function is not working for standalone ArcGIS Server 10.8.1.

arcpy.GetSigninToken() always returning None.

Did I miss anything? For standalone ArcGIS Server scenario how to get the token that was used to execute in arcpy based GP service (Synchronous)?

Matej Vrtich · Answer

Hi, It is already some time since this post, however I found the following is working (tested on AGE 10.8.1 base deployment with SAML auth): import arcpy, json from urllib import request, parse tokenUrl = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) def getUserInfo(url): try: token = arcpy.GetSigninToken() data = {"token": token["token"], "f": "json"} req = request.Request( url, data=parse.urlencode(data).encode(), headers={"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"} ) response = json.loads(request.urlopen(req).read().decode("utf-8")) return response["user"] except Exception as e: arcpy.AddError(e) try: user = getUserInfo(tokenUrl) arcpy.AddMessage(user) arcpy.SetParameterAsText(1, user) except: arcpy.AddMessage(arcpy.GetMessages()) The tokenUrl parametr is pointing to https://///sharing/rest/portals/self to get more detailed user information. Edit: if the GP service is running on ArcGIS Enterprise (base deployment), fetching the user info is a one liner arcpy.GetPortalDescription(arcpy.GetActivePortalURL())["user"] Matej

FlorianSteiner · Answer

Yes, I saw that. But it looks like this file is only available when the service is run asynchronous. I also would need the jobID and I currently have no idea of how to get it within python.